Puzzle game.



` L.1. HABERKORN.

PUZZLE GAME.

V LOUIS J'SEPH HABERKORN, OF CHATSWORTI-I, ILLINOIS.

rUzzILE GAME.

Specification of Letters Patent.

v Patented Apr. 17, 1917,

Application mea July 12, 191e. sei-iai No. 108,819.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, Louis JOSEPH HAB- ERKORN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chatsworth, in the county of Livingston and State of Illinois have inb 7 vented a new and Improved Puzzle Game, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. i

rIhis invention relates to games and toys and has particular reference to a game in the nature of a puzzle comprising a tray having a flat bottom upon which are loosely and movably supported a plurality of traps or pockets and a plurality of differently colored balls.

Among the objects of the invention is 'to devise a puzzle game designed to attract pec-uliar interest at the present time of international controversy, since one of the balls may be distinctively colored to represent an outlaw vor bandit, while the remaining balls may be colored red, white, and blue, and represent an authoritative force attempting to lcapture the bandit by cornering him in each of the traps in succession, but the traps being removed from the tray as fast as they are filled in succession. i

Another obj ect of the invention is to provide added zest in the playing of the game by calling forth the exercise of skill of the eye, as Well as the hand in manipulating the freely movable balls.

With the foregoing and other objects in view the invention consists in the arrangel ment and combination of parts'hereinafter described and claimed, and while the invention is not restricted to the exact details of construction disclosed or suggested herein, still for the purpose of illustrating a practical embodiment thereof reference is had to the accompanying drawings, in which like reference characters designate the same rim or ange 12. This tray is shown as of circular form, but as to this I do not care to be unnecessarily limited.`

Within the tray and supported loosely v upon the bottom thereof are a plurality of traps 13. Being loose, these trapsare adapted to slide around more or less upon the smooth flat bottom of the tray, whereby the diiiiculty insolving the game is increased.

A series of balls shown at 14:, 15, and 16, which may be red, white, and blue, respectively, are contained within the tray and are freely rollable upon the fiat bottom thereof. Also a brown ball 17 is similarly located.

While in the preferred form the traps are shown as -of open angular" form, they may also be of different forms, but adapted to be self supporting with an open side into which the balls may be caused to roll and be held by the sides of the trap. Fig. 3 indicates a semi-circular trap 13a as a substantial equivalent of the triangular form.

With the parts designed as shown or suggested herein and all of the parts arranged within the tray, the game may be proceeded with substantially as follows: Considering, for example, the brown ball 17 as the bandit to'be captured by the red, white, and blue, the obj ect will be to roll the brown ball into the angle of one of the traps and then roll the other three balls soithat'they will inclose the brown ballin suchv position. The operator then removes the trapfthus lled from the board and=proceeds with another trap and sov lon'througfhout the entire series of traps. When the bandit is nally captured in the last of the series of traps, the game is won.

. I am aware that it is not new broadly to provide a tray with pockets or traps of different characters with rolling devices to be caused to enter such pockets or traps, but so farv as I am aware, I believe it is new with me to employ a series of v'freely slidable or movable traps of the character and nature indicated` herein. l

I claim: Y

l. The combinationwithatray having a smooth bottom and an upstanding rim surrounding the same, of a plurality of erect open sided traps loosely and movably supported upon the bottom within the tray, and a series of differently colored roll-ing members likewise contained Within the tray ing traps slidably supported upon the Smooth and adapted to be caused to enter each of the at bottom and each having an open side, traps in succession. and a series of dierently colored balls 1o 2. The combination with a tray having a adapted to be caused to be rolled into each 5 smooth at bottom and a circular rim surof the traps in succession in a certain prederounding the same and projecting upwardly termined order. above the bottom, of a series of self support- LOUIS JOSEPH HABERKORN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner*l of Patents,

- Washington, D. C. 

